thrasyan mukundho navaneethachouryAth
nirbhugna gAthrO nibhrtham sayAnah
nijAni nissabdhadhaSAm yayAche
baddhAnjalim bAlavibhooshaNAni
Once
He carried a handful of grains to buy the fruits as is the custom in those days and being a child, all the grains were falling off from his hands when he ran towards the vendor.There were only few grains and what the hunter girl saw was his hand marked with the sign of conch and disc (sujAtharEkhAthmaka sankachakram) She thought that she should give herself to those hands, which is of course more desirable to the Lord than the fruits as He expects only the heart of the devotee more than the other offerings. Then she filled his hands with fruits and her basket was immediately filled with precious gems.Desika refers to him as kreedAsisu, one who appeared as a child by his leela.The gems were not in any way inferior to Kousthubha,'rathnaisthadhA kousthubha nirvisEshaih.'
Then comes the description of the difficulty Yasodha was experiencing in tying him to the mortar. Bhagavatha says that whatever rope she tried it was found two inches short, dhvayangulOnam.
Aneetham agrE nija banDHanArTHam
dhAmAkhilam samhitham apyapoorNam
nireekshya nirviNNa DHiyOjananyAh
sankOcha shakthyA sa babhoova vanDHyah
On seeing that all the ropes even when joined together were not enough due to his maya his mother became desperate. Then krishna took pity on her and made himself small enough to be tied while he made the ropes short earlier.
The sight of
Leelasuka says,
varamimam upadhEsam AdhriyaDHvam
nigamavanEshu nithAntha chAra khinnAh
vichinutha bhavnEshu vallaveenAm
upanishadharTHam ulookhalE nibaddham
Listen to this best advice, you who are fatgued in wandering in the forest of vedas! The Brahman of the upanishads whom you try to find, is bound to the mortar here in the house of the milkmaids.
Desika himself refers to
Those who think of the Lord in this state of being bound to the mortar will be freed from the bondage of karma without any effort on their part.Desika further says ,'thapasvinee thathkrathuneethirAdhya savreedam AraNya kaTHAsu thasTHou. The rule called thatthkrathu in vedanta is that whatever one thinks on so he becomes. In the case of
The eyes of
.Then Desika describes very briefly the release of the sons of Kubera from their curse.Krishna dragged the mortar playfully and it was stopped by the two twin trees and when dragged further by him it uprooted the trees. The two sons of Kubera, Nalakoobara and Manigreeva who were cursed by the sage Narada to become trees got back their original form.Bhagavatha says that Krishna thought that the sage Narada is dear to him and the time has come to fulfil his promise to the yakshas and hence he enacted this scene.The two yakshas bowed down to Krishna and went their way.
devarshirme priyathamah yadhimou dhanaddhaathmajou
thatthathaa saadhayishyaami yadhgeetham thanmahaathmanaa (Bh.10-10-25)
"the devarshi Narada is dear to me and these are the sons of Kubera(who is also a devotee) and hence I will fulfill what has been promised by Narada."
As he took the form of a lion-man to prove the words of Prahlada and the boon of Brahma, both of whom were His devotees, now he allowed HImself to be bound to the mortar in order to free the twins and to prove the words of Narada . That is the karunaa of the Lord.
Almost immmediately Desika switches to the migration of the residents of Gokula to Brindvan.
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